Grrl Power #253 – Vehemence unleashes his mane attack!
Don’t worry, Anvil’s hair (and scalp) is strong enough so this doesn’t hurt her, but it is, let’s say, tactically non-optimal. Anvil has the longest hair on the team, it has a fair bit to do with her insecurity in her femininity due to her height (she taller than Stalwart, who is the tallest guy on the team) and musculature. If she knows she’s about to tussle, she’ll tie her hair up with securely, but obviously having nearly waist length hair is a liability.
I haven’t quite figured out what happens with Vehemence’s markings below the belt. I think it’s like a weird tramp stamp that splits and goes down the side of his legs, but I guess I’ll find out if I ever get a chance to draw it.
#makecomics: I feel sort of like I’m short changing you guys by putting up a page with only 5 panels, which is dumb cause that’s closer to what comics usually have, but since normally I have either like 9 panels or it’s a big double tall action page. Here’s what happened with this one. It was originally a double, but so was the one after it, and I’m just not fast enough to do two doubles in a row yet, so I wound up having to cut this page in to two separate pages. No big deal, that’s happened before, but then when I was working on the second half of this page, I thought of much better way to end it… which involved making it a double, meaning I had to scramble to get these done on time, but I think it’ll be worth it (not to oversell it or anything.)
Not comic related, but is anyone excited for Shadow of Mordor? It comes out on PC tomorrow. I don’t know when the console release is/was. I saw an E3 trailer or something a long time ago and was only mildly interested, but I watched this preview (which is an hour long BTW) and I thought it looked pretty hot, like one of the Batman: Arkhams meets, I dunno, Dishonored wrapped in a fantasy skin. Plus, anything with a skill tree and runes and crap you can upgrade your gear with pushes a few of my buttons. The fact that the warlords remember you (previousEncounter=1) and talk trash when you come at them again is cool and unfortunately rather novel. Personally I think more games should have cut scenes where the bad guys acknowledge that I, the protagonist, have in fact killed 800 henchmen at this point in the game, making me one of the most successful spree killers in history. I honestly don’t know when I’ll have time to play it, hopefully it lends itself to 30-60 minute play sessions, since I can’t devote a whole evening to games anymore.
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Sydney sure has some impressive taunt
7th dan aggro master.
Well, Math has already acknowledged Sydney as a 7th Dan Black Belt in cursing…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/838
…Too bad he’s not awake yet to acknowledge her skill level in Aggro.
I just thought up a REALLY impressive taunt for Syd to use: She should send her lighthook snaking up his pant’s leg. ;) That’s sure to make him let go of Anvil, and if anybody thinks that’s off-limits just remember he started it with the hair-pulling. :P
Send a light snake after his trouser snake? o_O
Looks like Anvil’s having a hair-raising experience.
Definitely a hair-don’t…
Thighs are getting hairy for her, indeed.
Well if that’s a problem she could always shave. ;)
I just hope she isn’t hair today and gone tomorrow.
(Sorry, I just had to get that one in)
Oh no! He’s locked on to her locks!
Hey! She tossed her hair first!
Now she’s about to toss her cookies :P
It’s a toss-up whether she will or not.
Ok, Well, now we know what the purpose of the minion wave was. take a few arcs out of the fight AND let him assess classified powers. clever bastard
Don’t worry DaveB, it’s always worth the wait
+1
+1
Absolutely.
Yups, always, so far only been disappointed in one page, and that was because of the action on the page not the quality of the art
+2
+3
This an auction? +3, +3, do I hear +4?
it’s a variant on the like button and yes +4
I’m afraid it looks like the Lost & Found has snuck out of the forums and made a meal out of the like button, so +5
Halo, stop teasing the super villain! He apparently punches hard enough that shields don’t matter, if his (former) teammate is any indication…
Well, Halo has a 5 star shield (based on the cast page). 5 Star is the strongest on the scale.
I doubt a telekenetic has such a powerfull forcefield
True, but I can’t help but worry about her (even knowing that she’s okay in the future).
I have this feeling that Vehemence knows how tough her shield is compared to Vekter’s based on the earlier broadcast, so most likely Anvil will be slamming into it shortly in the hopes of knocking them both aside for a bit. Depends on how much of the impact Anvil can absorb, I suppose.
If he’s smart, Vehemence has to know she has to drop the shield sooner or later and it’s best to wait her out until she does. Then again, all Sydney has to do in that case is get out of range before she does so, so it might be a standoff between the two of them until she decides to use one of her powers offensively.
Unless V can fly, Sydney has the advantage. She can get out of reach and take a break while still delivering at least verbal cheap shots.
“Unless V can fly, Sydney has the advantage” is covered by “Sydney… get[ting] out of range”.
Kinetic absorbers make the worst clubs in creation (they just stop; there’s no impact). OTOH, they make a decent projectile…
Peggy is likely too far away for an accurate throw… Standard tactic is likely to have Harem move her to medium range, and medium range on a Barrett is fairly far for an accurate throw. Besides, V appears to be the thinking variety of villain, so he’s probably targeting ArcLight.
Now… if he wants a club, this current hold will also work on Achilles… And invulnerables make the BEST clubs…
Vekter had a weak shield compared to Halo. She already took a harder shot and is still making rude gestures at V.
Also remember, though, Vehemence already showed he could just casually step through her forcefield in their earlier conversation some pages back.
That was just an image. She was projecting an image of herself, which is intangible. It also projects an image of the forcefield. He can’t step through the real thing.
I was this page and all I thought was;
You spin me right round baby right round.
Me too!
Love that song
If he throws or slams Anvil, itis the same as a punch. I don’t think he thought it through. If he plans to use her as a club still not good.
i would suspect more get her dizzy and throw her away from the fight or something.
So once she lands, she continues charging up by punching the ground as her inner ears stabilize. Then she charges back into the fray. I wonder if she has any hair-ties.
that reminds me. can anyone answer real quick if someone in the forums answered an anvil power question about whether punching herself has no effect or a -negative or +positive effect? she could also jump into his fights and block punches and kicks to power up annoying as that would be.
Punching herself doesn’t power Anvil up. Her punching or kicking other things does.
Doubt it. If energy conservation still matters in this universe that should not work, ie ends with no change of her charge level (or a decrease even).
Absorb falls impacts could work because the force comes from an external source (gravity).
Doesn’t this mean that the hariousel will wind up powering her up when she lands? She just gets flung from the immediate vicinity. I guess the question is “how far will she fly?” either too far to rejoin the fight or not far enough and just her dignity will be impacted.
DaveB said that she can absorb the self impacts. As far as I know it has not been stated if that power her up or not. If I must to guess I will say that the result shall be zero.
A strip torn from her skirt is a classic look in these stories.
It’s almost like there’s a trope about that. =OP
kinetic absorb power wourldn’t charge up by her punching the ground
only a small charge by landing with her own weight unless she is “lucky” he sent her on a building
If he is as savvy as he seems, he will either toss her to the moon! or just swirl her around until she is both dizzy(er) and puking her guts out
Too long a time. Someone is no doubt moving in to distract/clobber V right now. Toss her and get ready for the next attack.
Who is going to risk getting clobbered by Anvil’s feet though?
Max.
he would even charge her for the pleasure. or at least taunt her to see her wonderful legs move in his direction…
That’s Math. Max is the golden one.
ah, true, i was thinking of math. the only one mad enough to try to grope max.
Not true! Dabbler got a nice double handful of golden ass…
Thought Math groped Anvil, not Maxi
But if Max got mad, would Mel Gibson appear?
To get a vomit reaction he’d have to be swinging her by her ankles, and it would take way long. The “hairy-go-round” is a great KO assuming you move fast enough/have enough time to cause their blood to pool in their feet.
If he twists as he turns, to cause her stomach to contort, she will be puking by the end of it
One of these days, to the moon, Anvil! To the moon!
I wonder if her kinetic absorption power makes every part of her body super strong?
PREPARE FOR SONIC BARF ATTACK
and she can then get a major charge of energy whilst also being too far away from the fight for it to matter :P
also, dizzy
By my hair, you’re makin me spin
You’re making me dizzy.
sure agree taht she should at least put them in a ponytail. if she still have some hairs at the end of this.
he really did a great job as observing them calmly and getting to know what was their powers while at the same time working on how to defeat them.
he sure hasn’t lost himself into the “blood fever of battle” like everyone did, arc team included.
that guy could be a VERY fun fight to go against
but i also suspect him managing to severly injure a lot of the team that aren’t like sydney and maxima at this rate… or achile of course.
Ponytail wouldn’t help too much, all that does it make the hair into a better handle
She may need to wear her uniform cap full-time. Or come up with a bun hairstyle that is blastproof.
Queen Ami or Princess Layabout buns?
back of her head would maybe make a handle but not something that flows as much when she dodges fast
it would follow her more close.
If his attack on Anvil is the fastest he can move, Maxima has his number.
i would more bet he moved at that speed to not hit her by mistake and charger her some at this point.
the way he got up to attack sydney earlier, was WAY faster than that.
Agrecian
I’m thinking he doesn’t typically move faster than his dance partner, unless he starts losing. He seems to enjoy the fisticuffs.
to comment on 1) she looks like she has or had no real pockets before or after this fight, maybe? Though I know how annoying it is to need a hair tie and nothing or time to make one too.
she could use whatever pieces of clothing she has left
i know i did it before
She could always wear hair-ties as bracelets
Also, surely throwing Anvil is a terrible idea. He’s super strong, so her impact will have a lot of kinetic energy behind it..which she will then absorb…
His best shot is to throw her far enough that she will be out of range for a few minutes, if he can.
she could be throw like an hour away from the fight too hehe
Bruce Banner’s crash landing in the Avengers film comes to mind. Cue surprised and weirdly turned on janitor.
lol especially if she keeps losing clothes at this rate hehe
So, there are only a few ways Vehemence can follow up on swinging Anvil by her hair.
Either throw her away, or smash her into someone else.
Both of those involve lots of kinetic energy being transferd, and thus absorbed by Anvil.
Tacticly still a bad choice for Vehemence than
not if he throws her very far away from the fight sight with his strength
Like this? ^.^
(I don’t see an img tag, so here’s the link)
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jTM7bA3Oaks/U11DZTgywvI/AAAAAAAAAA8/0XbQHbAknsA/s1600/team+rocket+away.gif
Isn’t that Achillies bit with, complete with the Goofy Flying Yell?
Maybe he’s just going to make her super dizzy and then put her down lightly!
Or just throw her far enough that she’s out of the fight because she has to walk back? Who knows…
This assumes she can take any amount of kinetic impact. There may be a case of two much. Tossing her outside of the fight would be the better test to that though, than super strength punching her.
Or maybe send her vertical, takes someone out for a second or two to catch her, assuming she does indeed have a limit which is probably a safe assumption.
If she gets tossed vertically, and Maxi orders someone to catch her (or catches her herself), that will give an indicator that maybe Anvil has an absorbtion limit (and terminal splatitude would be it)
unless they use that to hide the real limit so future engagements people underestimate her limit of holdable energy / absorbable capacity.
Or just to make sure she doesn’t damage anything in the fall.
I do know she will typically wear kevlar to stop bullets from Dave’s comments. As I seem to remember she can absorb the kinetic impact but not fast enough to stop the bullet before it does damage.
It looks like he is enjoying himself.
btw Sydney is missing her bruise.
I doubt she would miss it at all. =OP
Muscular women look great to me :) When they look like Anvil :D
Alas, most female bodybuilders are so overdefined that it IMHO hurts their femininity by a too-large amount.
That’s because they are bodybuilders, not muscle-builders
I would have said they are muscle-builders but they are not very good muscle-users.
don’t forget that most of, if not all of, the poses (and clothes, too) that you see those women in are DESIGNED to make every muscle stand out glaringly… if you were to see them in ordinary street clothes just walking down the street, you probably wouldn’t notice it to the extent you do in those contest and publicity shots. yes, they would be muscular, but not yee gawds! muscle-bound… that it unless they are doing steroids… then there’s no way to avoid it., but at that point they know, and don’t care…
I love Sydney’s raspberry behind the shield at Vehemence.
Oh, and Anvil, isn’t that one of the defining characteristics of a man? Wail, you were thinking “is”, not “has”. Never mind.
Anvil is disappointed all the taller-than-her guys are dicks?
Maybe should would meet some nice guys if she set her
sights a little lower.
A tall redhead with a generously proportioned bust should not be lacking in candidate
boyfriends.
Also, being a superhero is kind of being a celiberty.
Yeah, but being a celebrity usually just means that you have that much more chaff to wade through to find a quality partner who can deal with your life style.
I also find it fitting that Anvil would look for a taller partner. After all, she’s insecure about fulfilling traditional female stereotypes, and traditionally, men *are supposed* to be taller than women. If she didn’t have that insecurity, she probably wouldn’t mind being taller than her guy. But then she would also have a much easier time connecting with someone, since self-acceptance is sexy.
On average…this doesn’t mean there aren’t exceptions (hence the average statement)…
Women have a tendency of preferring taller men who’s butt they can’t kick. So Anvil has that stacked against her.
Me have a tendency to not want taller, more muscular women who can kick their butt, ample breasts or not.
There’s a very good reason she’s insecure with her appearance. Though I can’t say why she’s been unlucky with finding a taller guy who isn’t a dick. Makes me wonder one what the average is for that one. :)
Given that she’s 6’7″, finding a guy taller than her in itself is hard. I’m an inch shorter than that and it is very rare that I find someone else my height. Unless she decides to go looking for an NBA player, she’s probably only met one or two guys who are actually taller than her in her life.
Heh…I knew that, but the idea that she found multiple of them and they were all dicks is some unluckiness. :p
And if they are all dicks, might the problem not lie with her? o_O
I agree.
I’m 6’4″, and I’ve only met a few guys taller than me myself. Does depend which country you are in. I’m from Australia, so it happens from time to time, but in SE Asia I didn’t meet anyone my height. By the by, I’m told that northern Europe is the place to go for tall people.
I just read Dave’s puns at the bottom. Now there is another aspect of his talent to be jealous of. It could be hard to get into the swing of things after those two howlers.
Hairesy!
We must do something! Hair-rumph, hair-rumph, hair-rumph
“I didn’t get a hair-rumph outta that guy”
I just realized, Vehemence is jealous of Anvil’s flowing tresses. That’s why he grabbed them.
Didn’t Anvil lose a bit more of her top than just the sleeves?
Just most of the buttons.
So is that why he’s now causing her some dis-tress?
Was hoping to see Fedorka punch the bubble at least once :(
Last comic. Last panel That WHOOM! was him punching the shield. And Sydney jumping back in surprise.
Nah, that was him just moving quickly
And impacting with the shield
With his knee?
Left fist, he was probably gonna try it harder.with the left. I love how he’s critiquing their tactics as he goes.
Maybe he’s going to offer his services as a superhero trainer?
Folks seem to believe that is what the energy lattice showing up so strongly means some kind of energy was averted. In that case it probably was him hitting her shield.
Agree he hit the bubble, just having differing opinion on whathe hit with and how much force was used
Fair enough. I vote fist, it looks like his thing, but with mild super speed who knows?
“should have cut scenes where the bad guys acknowledge that I, the protagonist, have in fact killed 800 henchmen at this point in the game, making me one of the most successful spree killers in history.”
Now you know how Especially Gimli, Legolas, and to some extent more on Aragorn and less on Boromir!
should feel. forgot to write that in.
Hair pulling? Not very mature.
But I guess he already has a target where he throws her. Possibly some of the unpowered members.
‘Hair pulling’ has been part of combat from the beginning, it’s why female soldiers in particular had their hair either cut short like their male counterparts or tied up (note: that’s tied up, not tied back, ponytails, or even braids, just provide the opponent a convenient handle to grab hold of, unless they have had time to braid some spikes into the hair)
Two authors I know of have had female characters put in defenses from hair-pulling:
Wildbow (Worm, https://parahumans.wordpress.com/) had Faultline with a detachable fake.
Tieshaunn (Brennus, https://tieshaunn.wordpress.com/) went further and had a gadgeteer arm the detachable fake with electrified barbs.
Designed a female character who braided her hair for combat with spikes to prevent hair pulling and a blade at the end, it was based on Ivy’s whip-blade from the Soul Calibur(sp?) games
Made a female power armor character with the “exposed hair” look. Long braided hair which was a detachable wig imbedded with barbed fishing hooks and a timed thermite bomb.
Of course she also had tazers in her boots, used a pair of plasma torches like swords, and one of her ranged weapons was an automatic shotgun with ground glass mixed in with the actual shot JUST to leave fragments behind that wouldn’t show on an x-ray.
Yeah, that character was MEAN.
Then there’s Flaky Pastry who had one of their characters get a mid-battle haircut that didn’t go too well for the cutter.
Heh heh, yeah, that was fun :D
If you’re not using any possible weapon available to win, you don’t deserve to win (not counting friendly fights offcourse)
So far we’ve seen him use his upper body strength and overall speed for attacks, but was easily tripped by the lighthook. Right now he’s tied up his arms by holding onto and twirling the one person that throwing around will make stronger. Me thinks this was a mistake:
I’d say someone like Maxima or Stalwart should tackle his legs now to bring him to the ground again and have the physically durable/strong members of the group begin physically restraining him like your average police or MMA fighter would. I can see the lighthook being super effective as a quick full body restraint.
Don’t care who you are, but even The Hulk could be tripped if he wasn’t ready for it
Another trip to the pavement courtesy of the lighthook. Then dogpile him.
I can see it:
*whirl whirl whirl lighthook-TRIP, landing Anvil and Vehemence on the concrete*
V: *tears head out of the sidewalk* “You are going to just keep on doing that throughout the entire fight aren’t you?”
Sydney: “Ye-up”
V: “… I quit”
(obviously not how it would go, but the idea made me giggle)
He does seem to have a low tolerance for minor irritants.
And yet he likes Sydney, in a “Nothing personal, ut I have to kill you now” kinda way.
I doubt he is trying to kill anyone but an attack aimed at Maxima that hits Peggy would be extremely deadly.
Saw a preview for “Shadow of Mordor” some time ago, looks cool, but just not sure about all those moves (have the latest Assassin Creed game, but haven’t played it yet, bought it mostly for the wrist blades, got 2 each :D)
How far will Vehemence throw Anvil? Taking bets now. Walking distance? Driving distance? Need to be flown back by chopper?
He sure came up with a way to counter Anvil’s abilities fast. I hadn’t thought yet to use her as a flail to avoid punches becoming absorbed.
not fast, he’s had the whole fight to plan.
Random unrelated note of interest: I notice your strongmen all have a bodybuilder’s physique. A real strongman– those who train for actual physical strength rather than sculpted looks– have a more barrel-like torso. All else being equal, a super with the same powers but a stockier build would be far stronger– in fact, the typical bodybuilder is dangerously weak around the midriff and back….
Yeah, but Fedorka is a strength trainer, he didn’t get his muscles through training
As Dave has stated part of the super genome is the IDEALIZED body.
So the all look good, but suffer none of the bad stuff body builders do.
A little trivia, body builders are at their weakest during compititions due to having undergone a limited liquid intake diet to accentuate their definition.
You are right. But…
From one in-story perspective, the guy who can lift 10,000 kg gets (maybe) 250 kg of that from real physiology and 9,250 of it from super powers. If he increases that to 500 kg from real musculature (see world deadlift records), he now lifts 10,250 kg. Not much of a gain. He only gets real gains from weight-lifter physique if his entire body through-and-through is enhanced, and even then there is probably a limit on how much his powers will help, so again his limit may be defined by his powers more than by his physique.
From another in-story perspective, as another commenter mentioned, super powers in this universe do specific things to physiques.
From an out-of-story perspective, if Dave wants to add beefcake the barrel-chested look is less preferable than the narrow-waisted look (I think, I am male and hetero, so I am no judge here; on that note, Anvil +++).
9,250 of it from super powers
try 9,750 of it from super powers
And I was a math major. Where’s my ~!@#$%^&*()_ coffee?
That’s asumin offcourse he gets a flat number increase, instead of a percentage based increase, which sounds more likely to me
I wouldn’t call being able to squat 4-500 pounds in sets of 8 dangerously weak. Ronnie Coleman could deadlift 800 lbs. Sure it’s not pushing world record territory, but any bodybuilder who doesn’t habitually skip leg day is going to have a pretty decent core.
Vehemance is strong due to space magic, not training, so it would make sense that he’d train his body to look strong, rather than be strong.
We need to add “Observant” to V’s list of powers, that guy has spend his time lurking in the background of the initial fighting well!
“I, the protagonist, have in fact killed 800 henchmen at this point in the game, making me one of the most successful spree killers in history.”
That’s one of the most irritating things about MMORPGs, well all RPG, It doesn’t matter the name of the game or your role, you’re mostly an assassin. From “Bring me 10 rat tails” to “Vanquish the Dark Humbug”, you mostly just kill. One of the aspect I truly enjoyed about SWG was the crafting. Find the right resource, harvest it, experiment with it, build the best you can.
Giving players and their characters interesting challenges outside of combat takes some effort and the cooperation of the players. Easy enough gathered around a table. Out in the wilds of the Internet, not so easy. We called it the “Kill Monster, Grab Treasure, Score EXP” routine. And tried to avoid like badly written Twilight slash. My personal reffing experience is that past 6 or 8 players it gets hard to run complex scenarios. The online stuff deals with hundreds or even thousands at a time. Which is why they have zero appeal to me.
There are some small RPG worlds that might appeal to you. I’m daring you to try Arelith (shameless advertizing: arelith.com). A small NWN server with excellent RP, with 25-100 players online all time. There is still a lot of dungeon andventuring and killing stuff. Mainly to give players something to do, if they do not manage to get complex stuff going (timezones and real life can mess things up in an online environment). You still have your politicians, mad scientists, orders and pirates all over the place doing their thing.
After this,maybe Anvil needs a haircut?!?
I hope she doesn’t go that route. A little planning should solve the problem.
She still had at least shoulder length hair in the early comic flashback.
Shoulder length is still shorter than it is now
Yeah, if it doesn’t keep going behind the shoulders and down the back but I couldn’t tell from the shot. Interesting choice to cut it to just past the shoulders when that is the part he grabbed here.
How would Anvil look either a crew cut or shaved bald?
Short mohawk, I pity the fool who goes for a hair grab then!
She could change her superheroine identity to “Ms. A”.
Mr. T and Ms. A there’s something about that…
I hope she isn’t as afraid of flying as Mr. T was. Not only would that be difficult for the teams future missions but this next set of panels might be terrifying (assuming he’s not just gonna throw her into one of the other ARCies which I believe he is cause he strikes me as efficient like that.)
Anyone know if she got the Barberians number? could maybe do some nice, quick styling with lee-press-on-claws….
Poor Anvil. She just wants a nice, sexy hunk who is taller then she is who isn’t a dick. Vehemence doesn’t know what he is missing by being a bad guy.
Oh well, she can get her kinetic well charged up one way or the other…
Hey Anvil,
Don’t let your insecurities get the best of you. There are PLENTY of short men able to make you feel like a woman AND treat you wonderfully,
signed
5’6″ commenter who has dated plenty of taller women
and math. he have made it quite clear what he thinks about her. and females in general, preferably human.
right, sorry math, humanoid.
humanoidish?
Humanoidish is optional you say?
Heheheheheheh….
That was funny.
I don’t know if dating Anvil would be a good idea. She seems high mane-tenance….
Okay…off to your room for time out.
That was Hair-rible.
Although to give her due, she still has all her hair, so she can’t be one of those crazy, de-mane-ted people.
Hmmm…
I think Fedorka just likes to folli cule girls around and yank their hair.
All they need to do is have one of the powered members jump in an intercept Anvil mid-swing. Should power up Anvil nicely, keep her in the fight, and remove a potential club from Vehemence’s hands.
Question though…if Anvil absorbs kinetic energy, would the person clubbed by her feel anything?
“It’s like I’m punching sand…” accordingvto her first dance partner. Of course hitting a sandbag and being hit by one are two different encounters with our old friend Mr. Momentum. I’d duck if I were in ger path.
Cue Achilles, Intercept in 3 .. 2 ..
Achilles doesn’t have much super strength or special mass or anything so the only way that would be sure to stop her would be if Maxima is somewhere digging him out of the wreckage and winding him up for the throw in the same manner that Vehemence is doing to Anvil. which would be hilarious!
Considering his height, does that mean he can’t fight anyone because they are all shorter than he his?
Also, he wasn’t going to attack Sydney
no, he said that he “hopes she doesn’t die”… that doesn’t sound like “not attack”
Considering he knows how strong he is, he would know that if he fought her, she would most likely die, ergo he was not going to attack her, until her face-plant stunt
No, he was always going to attack her, but he would probably pull his punch into “hopefully nonlethal” range.
We don’t know that, it is possible (whatever degreee of likelihood) that after he ‘disposed’ of the rest of the Arc-ites he would have just left Sydney in her bubble
I doubt Vehemence is the kind of guy that does nonlethal.
He hoped she’d survive. So he would not have gone after her if she’d stay out of the fight.
She didn’t stay out of the fight. So now it’s her fault if she dies (in his eyes)
hopfully nonlethal was what he smacked Victor with. enough force to easily shatter bones, but in effect, really quite lethal if anything goes wrong in the slightest
Vehemence may be swinging Anvil to throw her or disorient her, but there is a different tactic available: slam Anvil into Halo’s shield. Why?
1) Psychological – make Halo feel bad and maybe move away.
2) There is no guarantee that Anvil absorbs energy from kinetics when she is moving rather than when she is standing still. Vehemence may be experimenting on this right now.
3) Anvil may absorb the shield!
4) Halo’s shield is apparently tougher than Vehemence’s attacks. So Vehemence knows that the hardest thing he can hit Anvil with is Halo’s shield.
Very good points
Dave has said that Anvil gets something almost like a “Maintenence” charge from her feet hitting the ground as she walks so theoretically it would be almost impossible to NOT charge Anvil in any physical confrontation (way back we discussed possibly using nerve-strikes, but mostly things like Gas (although there have been Kinetic-energy absorbing villains who could absorb the energy of a gas grenade releasing, leaving the gas as a powder on the ground) or high-energy Lasers (more heat than Kinetic)
I’ve always wondered about kinetic energy absorbers vs. lasers. On a subatomic level, incoming photons transfer momentum to electrons in the target – would this count as an impact? Or does it only work when the electrons in a fist encounter the electrons in Kenya’s skin? But even then, the electrons wouldn’t actually touch, just their electrical fields… Conclusion: a detailed study of Anvil’s skin is needed. I will donate my services to ArcSwat free of charge. And tell Math that I won’t be needing an assistant.
Off topic question. If Anvil can absorb kinetic energy to power up, does that mean she would be able to absorb Gambits charged playing cards? If I remember correctly he charges the cards with kinetic energy which causes them to explode.
Very likely – see what happened when Blond Bombshell threw one of her blasts at Anvil.
more like overloads the cards, but yes, all signs point to he being able to do so, (WOG said that she might be hurt more by blowing up the ground in front of her than using something like that ON her)
Yeah, it would be a bad idea for Cyclops to shoot her as well.
Dammit, Dave, I was just going to say that! :D
So will Maxima invoke the Important Haircut trope?
I swear, he’s purposefully avoiding full on attempting to kill Sydney.
If V is seeking challenging people to fight, Sydney rates pretty low. Untrained and uses devices rather than being a “natural” powered type. That attitude will get him hurt.
Great strip Dave… but you forgot Halo’s bruise again. :-)
Oh, and is there a way to add an auto-post? We should just do this one every Monday & Thursday:
Dave – Halo’s cheek injury disappeared again.
Ninja’d.
I swear he forgets out of regret for letting her get punched in the first place.
I think he’s trolling us. By now it’s happened often enough that it’s a recurring gag.
When the bruise appears on the other side, we’ll know we’re being trolled.
I’m a bit disappointed by vemm here. The way you defeat kinetic absorpters is you pick them up and hug them. Throwing Anvil only will power her up more. Also I hope Peggy has moved. The baret is not a quiet gun and vemm who was standing outside the main scuffle was sure to have heard it.
Depends on how far away he throws her
Ooo, maybe he could throw her at Peg (hope that that doesn’t happen, but it would be funs if he did :P )
How would leaning in to a punch give away Anvils power? Sorry I have a wide range of interests which include fighting. It’s pretty cool if you’re interested in physics. I digress, leaning in to a punch is a very common method in pro fighting to lessen the damage of a punch. What is does is interrupt the flow of kinetic energy that the body generate from the ground up, ultimately cutting the punch power way down. Given pro boxers can hit with enough force to simulate a car crash this skill keep them active and alive. This would be something Math does purely on instinct. Anvil should be placing herself in the place where she can receive the most damage and also tense up her body to cause more damage. Look up nat geo show fight science. It would give you a really good idea of how deadly fighting can be and all the physics behind it..
I just really like talking about science stuff on here so I don’t really care about scientific accuracy in the comic.Just like sparking conversations.
If you look too eager to absorb take the punch (e.g. leaning into into it) they start questioning why you do so.
most people dodge punches, not stick their chin out as a target?
Well, Achilles isn’t like most people, so he’d be more than eager to fight that way…Indeed, he already has;
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1358
I think what they should have said was she is leaning towards ANY potential hit that comes her way even when a good opportunity comes along to dodge or grapple that might have also set things up great for her next move without exposing her to risk from unknown super powers.
Also, it’s possible, that she doesn’t dodge, ever!
Even Ali dodged
In so many ways!
Maybe that draft left him feeling cold?
Dave, you missed a potential mini-comic for this strip. We need a picture of the surrendered hair stylist standing there horrified and shouting out “No, not the HAIR!”. Frankly, I think V. is jealous because he doesn’t have any.
I think they also knocked him out.
We didn’t see them knocking him out, and there was also no reason to, as he surrenderd peacefully.
He’s probably still got a wristband on though. You still cuff a criminal after he surrenders, though with his super strenght the wristband would be the only option. They just don’t need to turn it on yet
Now that we see the full body design, does anyone else think that V’s tattoos make him look like a big jigsaw puzzle?
They look like the several of the symbol used in schematics to indicate energy transmission paths strung together to me…